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March 29th, 2015.
The entire office staff stopped what they were doing to look out the big window at the top of the station. This was a historic event, after all.
The man in charge turned to the closest member of the administration staff - an intern who was getting some experience in space. "Minerva, take a memo, please. 'To the crew of the Thor Heyerdahl, from Sullivan Dwyer, Chief Administrator of the Artemis Foundation. Welcome to Mars and congratulations for making it here the hard way. If you have time while you're here, please stop by my office on Odyssey and I'll buy you a round of whatever your favorites are.' If you got all that, please send it off... assuming you can get a signal to them without it being swamped by everyone else's well-wishes."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
March 29th, 2015.
The entire office staff stopped what they were doing to look out the big window at the top of the station. This was a historic event, after all.
The man in charge turned to the closest member of the administration staff - an intern who was getting some experience in space. "Minerva, take a memo, please. 'To the crew of the Thor Heyerdahl, from Sullivan Dwyer, Chief Administrator of the Artemis Foundation. Welcome to Mars and congratulations for making it here the hard way. If you have time while you're here, please stop by my office on Odyssey and I'll buy you a round of whatever your favorites are.' If you got all that, please send it off... assuming you can get a signal to them without it being swamped by everyone else's well-wishes."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012